Former Minister of Education under the erstwhile Mahama administration, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has said she is the least perturbed by comments of current Education Minister’s suggesting she is a ‘disgrace and an embarrassment’.
According to the former minister, Mr. Opoku Prempeh is entitled to his own opinion and that she sees no point in retaliating or giving room for his comments to bother her since they are not a true reflection of what the reality is.
She made this statement in an interview with GhanaWeb’s Editor Kwabena Kyenkyenhene Boateng on '21minutes with KKB'.
“He’s entitled to his opinion… what I expected was that as somebody who has taken over from me, we would have opportunity to work together but if that wasn’t the case it didn’t really bother me”.
In November 2017, Education Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh made quite harsh comments about his predecessor, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, describing her as an “embarrassment” and a “disgrace” who did nothing but saddle the ministry with debt during her term in office.
“Her four-year tenure under John Mahama was an embarrassment” he stated.
Citing evidence to back his statement on the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Dr Opoku Prempeh said Prof Opoku-Agyemang as Minister left the education sector burdened with the following debts per the Mahama administration’s own handing over notes:
Feeding Grants for Colleges of Education – GHC36 million
Feeding Grants for Special Schools – GHC4.7 million
SHS Subsidy – GHC24 million
Progressively Free Senior High School debt – GHC33 million
Capitation Grant, GHC8 million
GETFund debt – GHC3.7 billion
“She doesn’t understand education”, Dr Opoku Prempeh insisted.
Meanwhile, the Former Education Minister who at a point in time also served as the first female Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast has maintained that she's unperturbed by the attacks on her by her successor.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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Na lie, it will bother you, school girl.
Silent is the best answer to a ***barred word***
We are seeing the products of Napo ooo. Akufo Addo graduates who insult their own president, destroy school property and clamour for Apo fi.
Eh..!!! Ghanaians like playing with words the "Queen's language"... Incompetence, wrong priorities, bad judgment etc,etc. eh..anyway how for do....we are mostly concerned about minuses of people or where they faulted so we exert all our energies to bring him/her down ignoring their pluses and positives on which we could have focused on and build upon to accelerate our development.
What do you mean he’s tracked you? When Free SHS first came up, you were dancing from station to station condemning it, and trying to tout the 200 buildings you never finished. Napa was quiet for a very long time until you brought up money and that’s when he started quoting those figures and called your performance a disgrace. I can personally confirm that you left Getfund students stranded abroad just because your reckless master decided to run an extravagant campaign. And you were quiet. Some abandoned their courses whilst others had to indebt themselves. Npp came and within a month of reading the budget they began paying what you failed to pay since August 2016. Indeed you are a disgrace, please stay at home and don’t complain about Napo.
NPP will go 2020. Liars
the prof has no shame , u had education and school in ghana has collapse, u are a gdisgrace to the word, gh pp
solve the dollar and petrol issues, stop disturbing as mahama is gone. things are falling apart npp n pocket boy Gh. economy is crying
You are seriously incompetent that is why you have nothing to say in defence of your recklessness....
MAAME JANE COME OUT TO DENY IF WHAT NAPO IS SAYING IS NOT TRUE. PER YOUR OWN HAND OVER THIS DEBTS ARE ON YOUR TABLE IF FOR FOUR YEARS YOU COULD LIVE SUCH HUGE DEBT THEN TRULLY YOUR INCOMPITENCE WAS TOO MUCH.THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN SAY ABOUT IT SO SIMPLY LIVE IT AND SPARE THE LITTLE IMAGE LEFT FOR YOURSELF.